Career
He frequently collaborated with award-winning director Ang Lee, notably cast in films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Pushing Hands. Lung enlisted in Chiang Kai-shek"s army as a teenager to fight the Chinese Communist Party. After they seized control of mainland China, he escaped to Taiwan, where he was selected to join an army-sponsored acting troupe.
Acting later became his career.
His experience playing an array of roles for the army troupe later led his being cast in over 100 Chinese-language films and in Taiwanese soap operas, typically playing criminals or tough guys. He had already retired from films when Ang Lee began casting for his first full-length film, 1992"s Pushing Hands, and the director, who recalled watching Mr.
Lung as a child, asked him to play a father in the film. By the time he appeared as "Sir Te," guardian of a mystical sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Lung"s health had deteriorated due to diabetes.
He died of liver failure in 2002 at the age of 72.